The official word has been given by several Taiwanese motherboard and chipset manufacturers: AMD's Socket AM2 launch date has been moved up by a week to May 23rd. Official reasoning is that motherboards and processors are already finished up; however, it seems that AMD also wished to get the "one-up" on Intel's Conroe by releasing as quick as possible. Socket AM2 had originally been set to launch at Computex 2006 on June 6th. Article